JCovarrubias

Account Management Spreadsheet The download button is on the right. I had to do this for 125 plus students. Instead of creating the csv file and messing with powershell. This allowed me to cut and paste, into the file and click on the button to add. I had to try a few times just to make sure everything was in order and then did the bulk add. [TABLE=width: 1] [TR] [TD] Common-Name[/TD] [TD] Account Name[/TD] [TD] First Name[/TD] [TD] Surname[/TD] [TD] Initials[/TD] [TD] Password[/TD] [TD] User Principal Name[/TD] [TD] Logon Script[/TD] [TD] Results[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD] Name you see in AD tree[/TD] [TD] Logon name 2000[/TD] [TD] First Name[/TD] [TD] Last name[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD] User Logon Name[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] There is a button at the top of the page that has options so you can click on what you need. Also make sure that you are either doing this in the server or on a machine that has Domain Admin privileges. For Account name and User Principal name I used an equation in the cell. =(C2&D2) will equal to JOHNSMITH and for Common Name i used =(C2&" "&D2) resulting in JOHN SMITH (note the space). The only thing I had to do was create the ou first in the server, then the excel file picked it up and from there all i had to do was copy the first name, paste, last name, paste and every cell was properly populated for me. Hit the Add Users button and I was done. I hope this helps for the future if you are done with this for now. And you can google other cool things to do with excel to make this even faster. Good luck!

We used to do this at some point. It caused people to forget the accounts and start using different accounts from different labs just so they were able to log in. Since we have different labs in different schools with different software, this wont work for us. That is why I'm trying to avoid the whole issue of them having to remember the user account. The password is the same across all the labs.

Setting the Value to 0 causes it to behave like normal. It displays the last user that logged in.

At the moment, I'm not sure if Auto LogIn is the route we want to take. With the K-4 students this might be beneficial. I added the keys with out the password prompt ( also with it but left it blank ) but it still tries to log in and states the password is incorrect. So we are back at having the log off script run. This might be a simple solution if it didn't try to log in right away. And this still results in if a user logs off and logs back in with different credentials, unless they restart the computer then we are set not Defaulting to the one I want. I'm trying to get the same user "Walker LAB" to show up every single time the log on screen appears. On boot up, after restart, after shutdown, on log off. Thank you, I will sit down with my boss and see if this is the route he would like to take and have people just deal with it.

I'm trying to set a specific user when the computer gets to the log on screen (either initial start up or user logs off). Teachers come into the Labs and use their credentials to log in but when they log off, their name is set. This causes confusion for the students and other staff members so they use a generic account that to log in ( student, student) and now the software that requires network shares don't work cause student will never be configured to use those drives. Resulting in us having to remote in and log off and log in to the proper user account. I am able to make a shutdown script that makes the change in the registry at these keys : "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI" Value = LastLoggedOnSAMUser Data ="Domain/Username" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI" Value = LastLoggedOnUser Data ="Domain/Username" It has worked if i set it in the Local Group Policy under the Shutdown script but haven't been able to push it down using the Domain's Group Policy. To be honest I'mm not to familiar with Group Policy. I copied my batch file to SysVol\etc... Scripts and set it as the Script name with no parameters. I also set the script name to cmd.exe and added the parameters to /c "Scriptlocation\Shutdown.bat" and no go. I don't mind if I have to do this locally on each machine one time and set it. This has to be a executed every time someone logs on, because the system will rewrite those keys every time someone logs on. That is why I was trying to have it execute on log off. I can't run it as a log on script, at least locally, because it required administrative rights. I've run out off ideas to make this work and that's why I'm asking for some help or to be pointed in the right direction. Maybe a scheduled task? Maybe a vbs script? Thanks for reading and any help is appreciated.

I dont know if I should start another thread as this one describes very similar experiences that i am encountering and don't mean to hijack this thread. -At some point with no reason at all, users can't open their documents that are saved in a personal network share "H" drive. -Word or powerpoint, the heaviest used by the staff, will load the splash screen and quickly blink (shuts down and restarts) and then continue to load the templates page, like if Word was opened and not an existing document. -If we open word first and try to file open, it crashes and reloads to the templates page. -It works if we copy the file from the H drive to the local desktop and open the file from there. -We also can't save into the H when this happens. -We believe it has something to do with the cache folder. If we delete the cache folder, we are able to open up the document from the network drive, but we get a warning about repairing the cache. -if we try to repair, it goes through the process but nothing is changed. The same error occurs no matter what at this point. -Deleting of the profile is the only work around at the moment. This happens so randomly to different people and asking them to save anything they have on the desktop or my documents can be a pain for both of us if something accidentally gets deleted (School Administrators). Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated so we can work some type of solution and have ready if this continues to happen. This has been ongoing since we rolled out Office 2013 in November, with about a total of 9 different instances this has happened in about 250 computers.

Status update on everything. So Supervised was the new key for us to make sure that they install "silently". We supervised one and tried it and it was brilliant. It installed perfectly and no prompts no nothing. This had previously worked before without them been supervised and that's why it was confusing to us. So here are the new steps we are taking. - Supervising all iPads. This will happen in the summer when the student are out as part of our global updates. - We assign a licence to the app using MDM>VPP. This causes the app to appear in the store under purchased app. *Before since automatic download was enabled, this would cause the app to install, well no more * - Once the license has been assigned and the app is in the store, then we go to MDM>Apps and push the app we want it to install. This causes a prompt from Meraki saying that it is going to "install" and app with the options to cancel or install. - For now we have told the teachers and staff via E-mail, that if they happen to run into that screen, to install! It's not the best solution but it will do for now till we can get them back in the summer (4 different buildings). - I don't know if this was the way it should have been done from the begging but I'm glad that we can push the apps now. Side notes * Don't push the app using MDM>APPs before you grant a license. It will try to install the app anyway, but it will ask for a iTunes password. * There is a difference between "User Tags" and "Tags". Had to spend a good portion of my morning setting these up to work for us. * Trying to push 1 app using MDM>APPs is too long of a process compared to using MDM>VPP. * The vocabulary can be a headache as well. I cant say apps when i mean MDM>APPs because it gets confused with an actual App. That why I wrote all this with MDM>APPs to not get confused. THANKS Again to BRIMSTONE for putting me on the right path.

How do you do this on a bigger scale? Do we have to touch each iPad again??

Yea, that is really messing with us since at one point we were able to silently install multiple apps. - Okay, I will change the Content Rating settings to allow all the apps to install. Theoretically, they wont be able to install any apps anyway since they don't have the password correct? - So my understanding of the Apple Support doc is that i have to disable the "Automatic Downloads" for Meraki to be able to push the apps silently (4th paragraph, second sentence). is this correct? One last little thing that I found out from my boss today, he said that he didn't check the "Supervised" box when he was initially setting up the ipads. Would this be another reason this isn't working now? This whole Apple management is completely new to both of us. Thanks for your help Brimstone

Hello all, This is my first post here but hopefully not my last! there is a ton of stuff that I have read and found use full in this forum. Hopefully soon, I can contribute to the community. I need some help. We have 90 Ipads that we are trying to manage. Well about a week ago, we are no longer able to push apps silently. We had set them up over the winter break and installed multiple Apps on different days successfully using VPP. We have tags set up and that is how we assign apps with Auto Grant. We have Ipads in 4 different schools (grade schools) and trying to touch each one is a major inconvenient. The apps appear in the purchase store with the cloud symbol. So we don't suspect meraki to be the issue as pushing the app shows up and revoking the licence removes it from the app store. I can install the apps but have to do each app manually and input the password as well. - We have set up a profile using Meraki and they have been successfully enrolled. - We also have set up VPP and successfully linked it with Meraki. - All the Ipads have a unique Itunes account (@icloud.com) and they have been singed in on the Ipads. - Ipads are set up to automatically download Apps. - Most of the Ipads are still on IOS 8.1.1 (originally configured with this IOS) - I have also checked in the profile to allow all the apps the be installed and still don't get pushed silently. Many people in this forum have reported successfully been able to push apps after changing that setting. We have Allowed content ratings to Apps: 12+ - Also we specifically added the IP address to one of our test ipads to bypass the Firewall, thinking that maybe the firewall was stopping something from it installing. Same result. A. Is someone else experiencing this? We work closely with a High School in the area and they have reported having similar issues. B. Is there a setting that we are missing??? I have double checked everything to my knowledge and can't seem to figure this one out. Please let me know if any more info is needed and i can provide them. Thank you